Participant

Gavin McCormick

Executive Director: WattTime

Guest Author

Gavin McCormick is co-founder and executive director of WattTime.

Academic and social entrepreneur, Gavin applies behavioral economics to energy markets to develop ultra-low-cost techniques to deliver more renewable power and energy efficiency at scale. While a PhD student at UC Berkeley, Gavin discovered green power can be provided at a much lower cost by simply correcting for the effects of known cognitive biases on electricity market incentive structures. As co-founder and Executive Director of WattTime, Gavin helps connect people and smart devices to this novel technique of drawing cleaner electricity from the regular power grid. His prior work with the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Lab includes applying behavioral economics to increase the impact of existing government energy initiatives. Gavin’s energy industry experience also includes advising large industrial clients through NERA Economic Consulting. He is a graduate of Williams College.

Authored Blog Posts

Four years ago, I was part of a group of graduate students from UC Berkeley and software engineers from Google and Climate Corporation who met at a hackathon. We unexpectedly discovered that by pooling our combined skills, we could solve a problem that hadn’t been cracked. For the first time,…

Download the charrette report: Catalyzing the Market for Automated Emissions Reduction In March, Rocky Mountain Institute and our partners convened more than 60 stakeholders from across the electricity industry for two days in Chicago to explore the potential for a new and promising technology: automated emissions reduction, or…